| Main Entry: | litany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recital of items, often part of religious services |
Synonyms: |
account, catalogue, enumeration, invocation, list, petition, prayer, recitation, refrain, repetition, supplication, tale |
| Notes: | a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service |
| Main Entry: | prayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
Synonyms: |
answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, orison, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
Synonyms: |
alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology |
Antonyms: |
instance |
| Main Entry: | rogation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
Synonyms: |
chant, decree, law, litany, rite, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | supplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal |
Synonyms: |
ave, entreaty, litany, obsecration, petition, plea, prayer, request, rogation, solicitation |
| Main Entry: | orison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
Synonyms: |
answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, collect, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Concept: | repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy. |
| Category: | 3. Indeterminate Number |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation., cuckoo (imitation); reverberation; drumming (roll); renewal (restoration)., twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction; periodicity.
-verbs
repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble., recur, revert, return, reappear; renew (restore)., rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflections, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.
-adjectives
repeated; repetitional, repetitionary; recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic., monotonous, harping, iterative, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual; another.
-adverbs
repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo., again and again; over and over, over and over again; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently.
-phrases
ecce iterum Crispinus; toujours perdrix; "cut and come again" [Crabbe]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam eandem canis [Terence];
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